Emerson’s students need to have a basic level of technological literacy: the LMS should resemble systems that student may encounter in the real world

Emerson is hoping to stay with our choice for several years: therefore, extensibility of the system and the health of the vendor are important.

Accessibility – the system has to be usable for everyone

Does it reflect the Emerson brand? Communication, media, etc.; Students should want to use the system (vs they have to use the system to find content.)

We did take out some of the more specific things we added last week and moved them to the list of criteria.

For example, the Open Source vs. Proprietary issue/tie-breaker issue was taken out because on March 27th: Blackboard bought the two largest Moodle vendors, and abruptly changed their tune about open-source!

Breaking News!

High drama in the LMS Market! Blackboard buys two biggest Moodle vendors!

What does this mean for open-source?!

But, more importantly – what does this mean for Emerson College and our current search?